BRUTAL: Elliott Hamilton SCHOOLS Atlantic writer so badly on the electoral college he deletes his tweet

The Left hates the electoral college because it protects ‘flyover states’ from the coasts. You can bet your sweet bippy that if the EC benefitted larger, urban areas and would limit middle America’s ability to have a say in how this country is run they’d be shouting from the highest mountain that they love it.

But since it protects the minority from mob rule, the mob aka the Left, they HATE IT.

The Electoral College exists to prevent the tyranny of the popular majority from monopolizing on both legislative and executive power. It serves to protect the interests of the plurality of states that don't have the same population density. https://t.co/4DJA9GFnjJ

Thus, @thor_benson, it is ridiculous to claim that the electoral college violates the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause when it serves as a mechanism to protect the interests of the lesser populated states.

Historical records suggest that the electoral college was placed in order to placate the tyrannical tendencies of a direct democracy. Madison made that case clear during the Constitutional Convention. https://t.co/PXFLkN6rHa

Here's what Madison said, @thor_benson: "[In a pure democracy], [a] common passion or interest will, in almost every case, be felt by a majority of the whole; a communication and concert results from the form of government itself; and there is nothing to check the inducements…

If you concede that this was one of the driving factors behind the EC, then why are you eager to dismiss the notion that it was intended to check larger states from having the larger say on who becomes President? https://t.co/loUjyeUNjn

I concede it was one of the many arguments being made at the time, but what I'd like to note now is we're reaching a point where the disparity between how much a vote in a populous state counts versus one in a state with very few people is absurd and unfair.

Let's put the shoe on the other foot. If you were to change the electoral college system as a means of allowing the popular vote winner to acquire the presidency, then wouldn't that minimize the voices of the plurality of the lesser populous states? https://t.co/EkTVPidqE9

Ah, but don't the people in the populous states having more voting power when it comes to the selection of the Presidency without the EC? Taking it away would render the votes of less populous state voters meaningless. How is that fair? https://t.co/dzXkoxb2tK

And his argument implies a voter in California is more important than a voter in Wyoming because of their population, and it’s just not so.

I beg to differ. That one million could make a significant impact in *any* state. Sure, the EC renders a million in a state like Iowa slightly more voting power than in California, but a million voters in each state contributes to where the state swings. https://t.co/Ly5HRBh7oa